The “Immortal Regiment” March action will take place in the Tajik capital tomorrow. The Dushanbe Administration has given permission to hold the “Immortal Regiment” March action to remember WWII relatives.
According to the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Dushanbe, the action will start tomorrow at 10:00 am. The action participate will gather outside the Dushanbe Puppet Theater, and from there they will march to Victory Park, where they will lay wreaths at the Military Glory Memorial.
The action participants can get the St. George’s ribbons the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Dushanbe. The St. George’s Ribbon action in memory of the victims of World War II has been carried out in a number of former Soviet republics under the motto of “We Remember! We Are Proud!” since 2005.
About 500 people participated in the procession in honor of the veterans of World War II (WW II) last year carrying photographs of their relatives who took part in WW II. Recall, veterans of war and labor in 2018 applied to the Dushanbe authorities asking for permission to organize the “Immortal Regiment” march, but they did not receive reply to their request. For all that, the Dushanbe authorities did not prevent the holding of the march.
In 2017, Tajik authorities decided not to go ahead with the “Immortal Regiment” march to mark the anniversary of the World War II victory over Nazi Germany.
Tajik national news agency Khovar reported on May 4 2017 that the decision was prompted by security concerns and “Islamic traditions that do not approve of the public display of pictures of deceased people.”
The “Immortal Regiment” marched across Dushanbe on May 9, 2017 nevertheless. About 300 people participated in the procession.
The ‘Immortal Regiment’ is a public non-profit organization, created in Russia on a voluntary basis with the aim of "immortalizing" the memory of home front workers, partisans and members of the resistance, concentration camp prisoners, survivors of the Siege of Leningrad and children of war.
The ‘Immortal Regiment’ brings together people of all ages, social groups and political beliefs. Anyone can carry on the memory of war veterans and enroll to participate in the march to honor the memory of those who earned the hard-won victory in 1945.
Since its inception in 2007, the ‘Immortal Regiment’ initiative has been met with unprecedented support, and by 2015 it had received national status.
According to the Republican Council of Veterans of War and Labor, only 244 Tajik veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 are estimated to be still alive. Over the past year, their number has decreased by 100 people.
